Kafka Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Apache Kafka
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 5.48% - 0.91%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 17.39% - 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £412 - -
25th Percentile £415 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 - £436
75th Percentile £479 - -
90th Percentile £593 - -
East London median daily rate £416 £415 £436
% change year-on-year +0.20% -4.78% -35.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tower Hamlets

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 23 11 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 31.51% 20.00% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 11
10th Percentile £416 £250 £436
25th Percentile £432 £411 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year -23.16% +8.33% -11.84%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £660
90th Percentile £674 - £750
East London median daily rate £450 £556 £540
% change year-on-year -19.19% +3.01% +8.00%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Kafka

Kafka
Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kafka in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kafka in Tower Hamlets

Kafka
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kafka within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 3 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Canary Wharf - 4 £416 - 1
Kafka
East London

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) Flink
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Middleware Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) EDI
1 2 (50.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Korn
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (25.00%) Confluent